What the corpus says about Sense and Sensibility (1995)

The 52 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (10)

[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · contrast · Sean bets Spider-Verse is better than Sense and Sensibility in a swap-viewing challenge. · "I am putting my money down right now that says Spider-Verse better than Sense and Sensibility."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:19:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ The Ice Storm · career · After the Sense and Sensibility hit, Lee made the most depressing movie ever made, which got no Oscar nominations. · "But before he made that decision, he was like, what if I make like the most depressing movie ever made?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:21:23 · David Sims (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Sense and Sensibility · career · Lee wanted to make The Ice Storm first, but got hired onto Sense and Sensibility, delaying it. · "So he wants to make it, and then he gets hired onto Sense and Sensibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:17:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Sense and Sensibility · verdict · Mamma Mia is not as important to Amanda as Sense and Sensibility or Four Weddings, but is pop-culturally significant. · "Is it as important to me as Sense and Sensibility or for weddings in a funeral or the, you know, any of those. No."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:21:31 · David Sims (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Sense and Sensibility · industry · They were shooting The Ice Storm when Sense and Sensibility got its Oscar nominations. · "But they said they were filming this when Sense and Sensibility got the Oscar nominations."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:43:22 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · what-if · What if Kate Winslet's Sense and Sensibility character could fly and was a bandit: Jen. · "What if Sense and Sensibility, Kate Winslow's character could fly and was a bandit?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Sense and Sensibility · career · Ice Storm was Lee's first American film; the film before was the English-set Sense and Sensibility. · "the movie he makes before, this is Sense and Sensibility, which is an English story"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ The Ice Storm · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:13:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Shrek · programming · Reflecting on their movie swaps, Sean ties Shrek, the earlier one-way swap, to Bobby Wagner's last episode. · "Bob's last episode was like a one-way movie swap, which was Shrek."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · lineage · The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs. · "It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos. · "can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Strangers ↔ Mamma Mia! · theme · Amanda argues the two 2008 films share a theme of knowing thyself and what can't be known; later both end by withholding the answer. · "And I would, I'll argue, has some things in common with Mama Mia."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Rocky Horror Picture Show · theme · The older characters' drag-like performances make Mamma Mia like Rocky Horror for people who go to full-service resorts. · "it's like rocky horror picture show for people who like to go to, like, Cabo to all, like, to, you know, um, full service resorts"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:29:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Strangers · theme · Mamma Mia, by never confirming the father, honors not-knowing the way The Strangers does, which Amanda says gives it more nerve. · "This movie understands that the greatest fear and the greatest power lies in not knowing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:54:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Phyllida Lloyd · craft · A celebrated theater director made poor camera choices; the speaker says it is some of the worst direction they've seen. · "The actual direction of the film is some of the worst I've ever seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once. · "She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Bergman Island · craft · Bergman Island also uses The Winner Takes It All, which Sean ranks as the second-greatest use of the song. · "I told you at the time, the 2nd greatest use of the winner takes it all ever."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Sense and Sensibility (1995) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Sense and Sensibility (1995) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:00:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Sense and Sensibility · contrast · Sean bets Spider-Verse is better than Sense and Sensibility in a swap-viewing challenge. · "I am putting my money down right now that says Spider-Verse better than Sense and Sensibility."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:19:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ The Ice Storm · career · After the Sense and Sensibility hit, Lee made the most depressing movie ever made, which got no Oscar nominations. · "But before he made that decision, he was like, what if I make like the most depressing movie ever made?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:21:23 · David Sims (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Sense and Sensibility · career · Lee wanted to make The Ice Storm first, but got hired onto Sense and Sensibility, delaying it. · "So he wants to make it, and then he gets hired onto Sense and Sensibility."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:17:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Sense and Sensibility · verdict · Mamma Mia is not as important to Amanda as Sense and Sensibility or Four Weddings, but is pop-culturally significant. · "Is it as important to me as Sense and Sensibility or for weddings in a funeral or the, you know, any of those. No."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:21:31 · David Sims (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Sense and Sensibility · industry · They were shooting The Ice Storm when Sense and Sensibility got its Oscar nominations. · "But they said they were filming this when Sense and Sensibility got the Oscar nominations."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:43:22 · David Ehrlich (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · what-if · What if Kate Winslet's Sense and Sensibility character could fly and was a bandit: Jen. · "What if Sense and Sensibility, Kate Winslow's character could fly and was a bandit?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Sense and Sensibility · career · Ice Storm was Lee's first American film; the film before was the English-set Sense and Sensibility. · "the movie he makes before, this is Sense and Sensibility, which is an English story"
[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ The Ice Storm · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:13:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Shrek · programming · Reflecting on their movie swaps, Sean ties Shrek, the earlier one-way swap, to Bobby Wagner's last episode. · "Bob's last episode was like a one-way movie swap, which was Shrek."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read) · lineage · The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs. · "It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos. · "can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Strangers ↔ Mamma Mia! · theme · Amanda argues the two 2008 films share a theme of knowing thyself and what can't be known; later both end by withholding the answer. · "And I would, I'll argue, has some things in common with Mama Mia."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Rocky Horror Picture Show · theme · The older characters' drag-like performances make Mamma Mia like Rocky Horror for people who go to full-service resorts. · "it's like rocky horror picture show for people who like to go to, like, Cabo to all, like, to, you know, um, full service resorts"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:29:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Mamma Mia! ↔ The Strangers · theme · Mamma Mia, by never confirming the father, honors not-knowing the way The Strangers does, which Amanda says gives it more nerve. · "This movie understands that the greatest fear and the greatest power lies in not knowing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:54:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Phyllida Lloyd · craft · A celebrated theater director made poor camera choices; the speaker says it is some of the worst direction they've seen. · "The actual direction of the film is some of the worst I've ever seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once. · "She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Biggie's Hypnotize · craft · The film keeps the edgier lyrics of Hypnotize intact, making it the first superhero movie to feature it. · "This is certainly the 1st superhero movie to feature Biggie's hypnotized"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mamma Mia! ↔ Bergman Island · craft · Bergman Island also uses The Winner Takes It All, which Sean ranks as the second-greatest use of the song. · "I told you at the time, the 2nd greatest use of the winner takes it all ever."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Sense and Sensibility (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Sense and Sensibility (1995) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.